Beckett's Art of Absence: Rethinking the Void [Hardcover]

Using the work of W.Bion and D.Winnicott, this book offers a psychoanalytic study of Beckett's aesthetics of absence. Focusing on the first prose trilogy and Waiting for Godot, it offers a critical challenge to accepted viewpoints of Beckett's negative status, not only within psychoanalytic literary criticism, but within Beckett criticism at large.Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Setting up Shop in the Void. Beckett's Negative Sublime Family Matters Playing, Dying and the Art of Being Absent Incomprehensible Damnation The Void on Stage Restyling the Ineffable Void Conclusion: By Way of Neither Bibliography IndexCIARAN ROSS is Professor of Twentieth-Century English and Irish Literature at the University of Strasbourg, France. He is Irish and was educated in St. Patrick's College, Maynooth and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.?His publications include Aux fronti?res du vide?and editor of Sub-versions: Trans-national Readings of Modern Irish Literature.